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Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental reconstruction

 

 

experimental archaeology

 

 

& just digging

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

comparing excavated sites

 

 

Documentary record search

Crafts

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)